Friday, June 20, 2008

Writing in the preface to Broken Laws, Broken Lives, retired Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, the 2 star general asked by the army to investigate the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, says:

After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.

What is even more shocking than this report is the fact that the toothless news media, currently little more than an entertainment division of the Media Conglomerates, has watched this unfold and chosen to busy itself breathlessly reporting on Britney and Paris's latest shenanigans instead.